I love that Mozilla is asking for donations in the amounts of $3.14, $15.9, $26 or $53 on Pi Day!
🍕🥧 #π
Archiving my Twitter, Facebook and other social network activity
I love that Mozilla is asking for donations in the amounts of $3.14, $15.9, $26 or $53 on Pi Day!
🍕🥧 #π
Saw several links to this article on Facebook deliberately ignoring the fact that people present their identity differently to different groups (family, friends, work, interest-based groups, etc.) & how that impacts social interaction. https://boingboing.net/2018/01/22/facebook-is-sad.html
It got me thinking about exploring other Mastodon instances again, and an article I read ages ago on a contextual identity project at Mozilla. Looks like I should check out Firefox Containers. https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Contextual_Identity_Project/Containers
Mozilla releases research results: Zero rating is not serving as an on-ramp to the internet
Tough choices: Users want to watch media from the entertainment industry. The industry is only willing to provide it with DRM, which goes against Mozilla’s goals of transparency, openness, and user control. It used to be easy to let plugins deal with it, but Flash and Silverlight are slowly giving way to built-in browser functionality, and leaving it out means lots of users will just switch browsers when they can no longer watch Netflix etc. with Firefox.
Reconciling Mozilla’s Mission and W3C EME
With most competing browsers and the content industry embracing the W3C EME specification, Mozilla has little choice but to implement EME as well so our …
“if you’re not breaking the law, you have nothing to fear from SOPA.”
Really?
Feds Falsely Censor Popular Blog For Over A Year, Deny All Due Process, Hide All Details…
And this is under the current law, without the additional tools SOPA provides.
Also, check out CloudFlare’s article about how they already have to deal with people sending bogus DMCA complaints in order to get the data needed to launch DDoS attacks. With SOPA, why bother to launch the DDoS, when you can get the law to do your dirty work for you?
Even the pro-copyright-enforcement Heritage Foundation warns about unintended consequences of the law. It doesn’t matter if the law is only intended to go after rogue sites if it’s written in a way that applies to legit sites as well, and it doesn’t matter who’s targeted if the solutions imposed result in major collateral damage.
Consider also that the “techno-elite” you’re referring to are the people and companies who built and run the Internet, and includes companies like Facebook, Google, Yahoo, Mozilla, PayPal and Wikipedia. Not just their users, but the companies. It seems they might know something about how it works, and how this law would affect it.
“I just don’t see opposing intellectual property protection as doing the right thing.”
Again, you’re falling into that second trap, where “something must be done” implies “this thing must be done.” There are other ways to protect IP than by passing SOPA or Protect IP in its current form.
Interesting read: Why Mozilla Needs to go into Survival Mode
So, have you got some specs for exactly the way IE and Gecko handle every single case of non-standard code? Including cases where it’s clear the code is broken, but it’s not clear what the author meant, and multiple interpretations are equally valid?
No? There’s no specification? They’ll have to reverse-engineer it by visiting every page on the internet with IE and Firefox and seeing what those browsers do with them? Gee, that sounds workable!
Mozilla Launches Jetpack https://blog.mozilla.org/blog/2009/05/20/mozilla-labs-introduces-jetpack-call-for-participation/
Opera Watch reports that Microsoft, Mozilla, Opera and Google declared the Browser Wars to be over at a panel at Web 2.0 Expo yesterday. “Instead of trying to trump one another by adding features in point releases, the companies that developed these browsers are instead intent on advancing their use as platforms for a new generation of rich Internet applications and for tackling the hurdles that will come along with that shift in strategy.” ComputerWorld and eWeek have more details. Apple, the remaining major browser manufacturer, was not represented at the panel.